This blog entry is nothing but unnecessary rhetoric.
I will admit, as someone who was an early adopter of Android, things back in the 1.x days were sucky. The OoBE was horrible. I remember buying my first Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 from AT&T and the first phone I got was in shambles before I even got it out of the store...it literally came out of the box broken. But as you well know, ALL phone manufacturers experience that phenomenon.
As someone who came from the 1.x days of Android I grant that some of what you post were indeed problems back then. Not anymore. Right now, I still own that Xperia and it's running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) and it has none of the problems you list. I dumped the firmware the carrier left on it ages ago, because AT&T is notorious for slowing down updates from the manufacturer. I was running 2.0 just about as soon as Sony Ericsson released it.
Sync? Who needs it? I've got Dropbox, Gmail, G+ and more. I've got a ton of 'backups' of contact data and I need never worry of losing it.
Titanium Backup ensures that I can restore such info easily, even to a new phone.
I don't suffer security issues. Lookout, AdAway, and DroidWall take care of that pretty darn easily.
JuiceDefender helps one to reign in the power problem. And it works.
You claim all of these are 3rd party tools. Yes. Yes, they are. If you understood ANYTHING about Linux, which is the grand OS that this platform is based on, you'd realize that EVERYTHING that makes Linux what it is...is from a third party. That my friend, is the beauty and power of Open Source Software. You aren't locked into one program for something...you've got a choice. If one package fails, fire it and find a new one. If one package fails to support you properly, fire it and find a new one.
